Fake ‘Child Abduction’ Text Message Circulating

Over the last few days a text message has been spreading around the Jewish communities in Crown Heights, Boro Park, and Flatbush about “a 3-year-old boy being abducted by a man driving a Mitsubishi Eclipse”, is confirmed to be a hoax and has appeared via text messages along with Twitter and other social networking sites as much as 4 months ago.

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Religious Jews have long experimented with ways to maintain their observance despite the advent of technology. Chabad Lubavitch’s AskMoses.com allows visitors to chat with a Jewish scholar every day except on the Sabbath and holidays. Rabbi Simcha Backman says the Web site is a form of outreach.

Yeshivas Tiferes Bachurim Honor Roll on Hey Teves

MORRISTOWN, NJ — On the 5th of Teves there was an Honor Roll Book Presentation made. Some 39 students who volunteered to do extra study in connection with the 19th of Kislev (the Chassidic New Year) were rewarded a memento to encourage their accomplishments. Then at the end, a grand Raffle was made by Rabbi Brafman (the Rosh Kolel) to award two students with various sets of books.

ULYOP 5th Annual Chanukah Winter Ski Camp

It’s 7:00 am, students of ULYOP & Hamasifta gather in Crown Heights to meet at their home away from home, United Lubavitch Yeshiva on Ocean Parkway. At the same time the school’s talmidim from Flatbush, Queens, and Brooklyn heights are trekking towards the same goal. After the day’s Tanya and a hardy breakfast the vans are loaded, at 9:12am their over 200 mile journey to snow covered Saratoga Springs began. For yet another unforgettable Shabbos & Chanukah by Rabbi Avraham Abba Rubin, the Rebbes shliach to Saratoga Springs.

Chanukah at Chabad is about Tradition of Learning, Fun

Preparing crepes at the Jewish Discovery Center Chanukah brunch are Bluma Pinson, Chayie Caplan. – Abington Journal/C.R. Woronchuk

On Sunday, Dec.13, the Jewish Discovery Center in Clarks Summit, PA, hosted a special Chanukah brunch. The event was complete with crepes, latkes, smoked fish and lox, crafts, games and fun for all ages, including the Wheel of Fortune Chanukah game show hosted by Rabbi Benny Rapoport.

“The Rebbe Owes The Chassid Total Loyalty”

On the fifth of Tevet, 5747 (1987), U.S. Federal Court issued a decision in favor of Agudas Chassidei Chabad (“Union of Chabad Chassidim”) regarding the ownership of the priceless library of the 6th Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn. The ruling was based on the idea that a Rebbe is not a private individual but a communal figure synonymous with the body of Chassidim.

Bochurim Doing Mivtoim at London’s Heathrow Airport

Throughout the nights of Chanukah El Al had a 10:15pm flight taking off from London’s Heathrow Airport to Tel Aviv, Israel. These lucky passengers and flight crew were welcomed in boarding lounge by the Bochurim, who distributed delicious jelly doughnuts and a travel size Chanukah Menorah with candles for they trip. The passengers and crew enjoyed the company and Divrei Torah while waiting for their plane. Thousands of Menorahs and doughnuts were distributed throughout the nights of Chanukah.